When is Notley finally going to stand up to Trudeau, in deeds as well as words?

Earlier this week, Notley sounded stronger than usual saying the Trudeau government needed to toss their half-hearted statements away.

“We don’t actually need Ottawa’s sympathy,” said the premier.

Keep going, premier. Notley is known as a hell of a political counter-puncher.

So punch Trudeau.

“We want Ottawa’s full attention.”

Yes we do. Indeed we do.

“We need them to step up and help bring an end to this crisis.”

And if they don’t, if they don’t?

If they don’t we can cut that oil production and buy those trains for a billion bucks and see Trudeau pass a law making new pipelines near impossible and hope for one of two things to happen.

The Trans Mountain pipeline built OR hell freezing over.

Every Albertan who has not been hibernating knows Trudeau shafted Alberta.

And all the while, the Notley government played along with Trudeau.

Oh yes. While we paid the carbon tax like good little taxpayers, Trudeau was going to get the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to the coast.

Who can forget the high-fives of pipeline victory?

Who doesn’t recall the blessing of the pipeline and the groundbreaking, the only shovels we’ve seen in the ground?

Who fails to recall Trudeau and his sidekicks telling us the pipeline would be built and leading us to believe the B.C. government was just about to raise the white flag?

Cruel memories.

But they could not be as cruel as Notley and Trudeau together, singing from the same song sheet.

Hearing Catherine McKenna, Trudeau’s minister of Mother Earth, telling the world with 100% certainty there wouldn’t be a national carbon tax plan unless the great Rachel Notley put in a carbon tax for Alberta, a phasing out of coal and a hard cap on oilsands emissions.

Yes, Alberta brought in the carbon tax before Trudeau and I can still hear how a carbon tax would get us a pipeline.